Analytical Chemistry: An Introduction (Saunders Golden Sunburst Series)

I paid expedited shipping for this item... and while it arrived on time, the package was completely broken into when I received it, with the edges and cover of the textbook bent and damaged. Definitely frustrated since I spent extra on this textbook -- at least it could have arrived in decent condition.As for the textbook itself, I found it was pretty helpful. The only part of the textbook I did find confusing was its handling of chromatography methods, but overall I found it to be pretty suitable for an analytical chem textbook.

This is a good textbook for the subject of analytical chemistry, though I do not much care for the monochromatic look. Everything is blue... even things that are supposed to be red.

My professor rates it highly and assures us that htis book is the authority on quantitative analysis, and that this book will be an asset in our future. He said it has trained the last forty years of chemists. It is a blessing to be able to own it.

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This became my shield against my professor's exams.

I am a CHEM major and I was consistently surprised at how many typos and flat-out errors the SEVENTH edition of this book had - seven editions and still poor editing! The examples that are provided are for simpler problems and when you go to do homework, you're lost. Also, instead of using less than a penny's-worth of ink and printing the equation that they are using in an example, it will just refer you back to another page in the book where it was introduced. Some problems require several equations, and you're flipping back and forth all-over the book just to see what equations they are using.If you're stuck with this book, I recommend you somehow obtain the INSTRUCTORS' solutions manual (or at least the students' solutions manual) so you can actually do the homework.I also bought a used, previous edition of the Harris Quantitative Analysis textbook. You can get it and a solutions manual pretty cheap if you get a previous version and it's a good book that will explain what Skoog tries to explain so poorly.

This book is definetly a keeper! A masterpiece of clarity. Although it is >10 years old, this introductory book is still by far the best book of its kind. It is one of of the few chemistry books that I have read from cover to cover several times, and each time I still pick up insights into problem solving and the reasoning behind analytical techniques. The classical experiments in chapter 27 are so good that purchase of a seperate laboratory book is un-necessary.

Just as I remembered it from 40 years ago

Answer Key has answers to every question except it only answers A,C,E parts of questions which should be more than enough to get you on track for your assignments or for practicing for mid terms and finals.